Matching promotions to telecom user preferences using artificial intelligence
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217284
Promotional offers are offered to telecom subscribers in roaming network areas by recording promotional preferences of subscribers for receiving promotional calls, forwarding subscriber information from a local network telecom service provider to a roaming network service provider, and measuring with the roaming network telecom service provider the subscribers that are present within a roaming network geography. The subscribers can then be ranked by their duration within the roaming…
Reducing contact resistance of phase change memory bridge cell
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219885
A phase change memory includes a substrate, a plurality of first phase change elements on the substrate, a plurality of electrodes on the plurality of first phase change elements, and a second phase change element connecting the plurality of electrodes and disposed between the plurality of first phase change elements.
Phase change memory with conductive rings
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219884
A phase change memory, system, and method for gradually changing the conductance and resistance of the phase change memory while preventing resistance drift. The phase change memory may include a phase change material. The phase change memory may also include a bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a heater core proximately connected to the bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a set of conductive rings surrounding the heater core, where the set…
Dual layer top contact for magnetic tunnel junction stack
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219881
A semiconductor device includes a dual layer top contact upon a MTJ stack. The dual layer top contact includes lower contact and upper contact. The lower contact may be wider and/or shallower relative to the upper contact. This wide and/or shallow geometry of the lower contact may decrease the propensity for over etching, during the formation of the upper contact, opening downward into the MTJ stack and may therefore prevent undesired shorting of the MTJ stack. Further, the lower contact…
Cryogenic packaging for thermalization of low temperature devices
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219737
A thermalization structure is formed using a cover configured with a set of pillars, the cover being a part of a cryogenic enclosure of a low temperature device (LTD). A chip including the LTD is configured with a set of cavities, a cavity in the set of cavities having a cavity profile. A pillar from the set of pillars and corresponding to the cavity has a pillar profile such that the pillar profile causes the pillar to couple with the cavity of the cavity profile within a gap tolerance…
Volumetric clustering on large-scale DNS data
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218957
In an approach, a processor receives a set of normal domains, a set of suspicious domains, and a set of malicious domains; labels each domain of the set of normal domains as normal producing a labelled set of normal domains and each domain of the set of suspicious domains and the set of malicious domains as malicious producing a labelled set of malicious domains; samples a preset percentage of the labelled set of normal domains producing a sampled set of normal domains; aggregates the…
Device mismatch mitigation for medium range and beyond distances
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218120
A structure is provided that includes a first active circuit in which at least one of areas surrounding the first active circuit includes an active circuit-containing region. A second active circuit is spaced apart from the first active circuit. The second active circuit includes a circuit mimic fill area present in at least one of the areas surrounding the second active circuit. The circuit mimic fill area substantially matches the active circuit-containing region that is adjacent to…
Anti-fuse and fuse structures for improving the functionality of qubit circuits
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218048
A method of constructing a superconducting switch includes depositing a thin sacrificial layer on top of a substrate. The sacrificial layer is patterned to remove portions of the sacrificial layer except at a first portion of the substrate. A superconducting metal layer is patterned on top of the substrate and on top of the sacrificial layer. The superconducting metal layer is patterned to form a superconducting metal line over the sacrificial layer. The patterned sacrificial layer is…
Adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217778
Provided are a tape head controller, tape drive, and method for adjusting a skew angle and lateral position of a tape head to reduce track placement errors. A tape head is rotated at a nominal skew with respect to a tape medium to position servo readers in servo patterns. Data writers are located in a first plane of the tape head and the servo readers are located in a second plane in the tape head. The first and the second planes are separated by a distance. Repeatedly determining a skew…
Tape drive write across write error
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217776
A method for writing to tape by a tape drive is provided. The method includes, in response to identifying a write error during a write to a tape in a certain HRTD region, repositioning the tape to a next HRTD region. The method further includes continuing the write at the next HRTD region.
Offline bidirectional transaction and secure system
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217253
In an approach for enabling communication between offline devices to perform secure transaction, a processor sends information in an optically recognizable first code including a response type, an identity of the first device and a type of optical reader associated with the first device. A processor receives encoded information in an optically recognizable second code. A processor extracts a user identifier and the one-time password associated with the registered second device. A…
Learning unpaired multimodal feature matching for semi-supervised learning
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217191
A computer-implemented method is provided for learning multimodal feature matching. The method includes training an image encoder to obtain encoded images. The method further includes training a common classifier on the encoded images by using labeled images. The method also includes training a text encoder while keeping the common classifier in a fixed configuration by using learned text embeddings and corresponding labels for the learned text embeddings. The text encoder is further…
3D nanochannel interleaved devices
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208386
3D nanochannel interleaved devices for molecular manipulation are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a device includes: forming a pattern on a substrate of alternating mandrels and spacers alongside the mandrels; selectively removing the mandrels from a front portion of the pattern forming gaps between the spacers; selectively removing the spacers from a back portion of the pattern forming gaps between the mandrels; filling i) the gaps between the spacers with a conductor to…
Text summarization with emotion conditioning
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210834
A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for text summarization that maintains emotional content. Data corresponding to text to be summarized and a target emotion to be maintained in the text to be summarized is received. The target emotion is encoded as an emotion probability vector. One or more words that correspond to the target emotion that is encoded in the emotion probability vector are identified from a dictionary. A text summary to be associated with the text…
Specificity ranking of text elements and applications thereof
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210827
Ranking a plurality of text elements, each comprising at least one word, by specificity. For each text element to be ranked, such a method includes computing an embedding vector that locates a text element in an embedding space, and selecting a set of text fragments from reference text. Each of these text fragments contains the text element to be ranked and further text elements. For each text fragment, the method calculates respective distances in the embedding space between the further…
Gaze-based active device identification and management
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210677
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to gaze-based active device identification and management. At a first time, at least one reference gaze image of a user while the user is gazing at a first user device of a plurality of user devices in an environment of the user can be collected. At a second time, a current gaze image of the user can be collected. The at least one reference gaze image can be compared with the current gaze image to determine that the user is gazing at the first…
Featureless machine enhancement discovery and verification
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210634
Method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. Program queries for an indicator of dependency between a usage domain and a control domain in a virtual machine (VM) configuration having a cryptographic AP adapter. The VM and the cryptographic AP adapter are both installed on a hardware server. Program sets an internal bitmap based on a result and generates one or more sets of AP commands, based on the setting of the internal bitmap. The sets of AP commands are…
Multi-instance, multi-answer training for table and text question answering
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210538
Techniques for enhanced table and text question answering based on multi-instance, multi-answer training are presented. An answer extractor component can determine answer scores associated with candidate answer data items based on analysis of a set of data, comprising row data items of a table and passage data items associated with the table, and a context of a query of the set of data. The answer extractor component can be trained based on application of denoised single-instance and…
Nanopore structures
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210011
Nanopore structures are provided. In one aspect, a nanopore structure includes: an oxide shell surrounding a nanopore, wherein openings on both ends of the nanopore have a diameter D1, and a center of the nanopore has a diameter D2, wherein D1>D2. In another aspect, the nanopore structure includes: a first film disposed on a substrate; a second film disposed on the first film; at least one pore extending through the first film and the second film; a dielectric material disposed in the…
Hybrid challenger model through peer-peer reinforcement for autonomous vehicles
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12208820
A driverless vehicle system comprises a processor that is configured to communicate information related to attributes of a focus autonomous vehicle (FAV) to an other peer vehicle (PV) and/or a central repository system (CRS). The processor is further configured to communicate information about a corrective action by at least one of the FAV and a previously contacted vehicle to the CRS or to a further peer vehicle that is within a predefined region.
